Improved knife-cleaning box



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIC.

CHARLES D. GOIELAND, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED KNIFE-CLEANING BOX.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,275, dated March 20, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. GOPELAND, of Fall River, in the county ot'Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Knife-Cleansing Box; and I do hereby declare the same to be fullT described in the following spccieation, and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a top view ot it with its cover removed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section ot' it with its cover in place.

In the said drawings, A denotes a box, of which B is the cover.

Extending across the box transversely is a low partition; a. From the top of the said partition an inclined plane, b, rises to the upper edge ot' one end of the box, such plane being supported on ledges Zland the partition.

The inclined plane answers three purposesthat is, it serves as a supporter of a knife-blade while in the act of being cleaned. It is also a means of discharging into the space c the waste cleaning'material 5 and, furthermore, it

is a `cover to the space d, in which the cloths and implements used in effecting the cleansing of a'y knife are kept while not in use.`

The space o is to hold the brick-dust or powder usedl for scouring the knife-blade, whicl, while being scoured, is to be laid on the plane b, the handle of the knife being grasped by the operator in one hand, While with a scourer (such as is shown in Fig. 3) in the other he takes up the material from the space c and applies it to and rubs it on the knife-blade.

The implement shown in Fig. 3 is a wedge provided with a handle, g, and covered with buff' leather l1..

I claim as myinvention andas a new article of manufacture- The knife-scouring box made substantially as described.

UHAS. D. OOPELAND. Witnesses WM. C. GREENE, WILLIAM F. HORNDEN. 

